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Investors critical in achieving ESG outcomes
ESG continues to expand in terms of scope and breadth as new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), new regulation, geopolitical affairs and other drivers bring new types of risks and opportunities to the forefront.
While there is a multiplicity of issues at any moment in time, we maintain a disciplined focus on incumbent issues with financial materiality in mind, including broad systemic issues, such as climate change and human rights as well as more specific issues, such as corporate culture, including diversity and inclusion, recycling, indigenous rights, and of course, corporate governance.
We believe investors have a key role to play, either through targeted company-specific engagements or through collaborative engagement and advocacy activities. Individual endeavour coupled with focused collaboration can bring major change to how companies behave across the ESG spectrum.
How we engaged in 2024
During 2024, Ausbil engaged with 115 different companies, on 413 issues at 237 company engagement meetings. We met with many of these companies on multiple occasions see Figure 1. In addition to these meetings, Ausbil undertook extensive industry engagements such as conferences where we presented to a multitude of representatives from companies on issues including climate change and decarbonisation, modern slavery and supply chains, culture and governance, among many other topics.
We believe investors have a key role to play, either through targeted company- specific engagements or through collaborative engagement and advocacy activities
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